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单词 to touch down
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to touch down
to touch down
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a. transitive and intransitive. Rugby. To ground (the ball) on or behind the try line, either for a try or as a defensive tactic. Cf. touchdown n. 1a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (transitive)] > actions to ball
to knock on1642
punt1845
to touch down1859
ground1863
touch1864
scrimmage1871
heel1886
scrum1889
hook1906
tap-kick1960
1859 New Rugbeian Nov. 62 The ball was regularly driven in by the Eleven and Twenty-two, and touched down by one of them.
1882 Standard 20 Nov. 2/8 The Military had..to touch-down several times in self-defence.
1891 Wood's Boy's Mod. Playmate (rev. ed.) 35 A Maul in Goal is when the ball is held inside the goal-line and one of the opposing sides endeavours to touch it down.
1934 Times 9 Oct. 7/3 After their back had thought that he had touched the ball down, W. Smith..walked up to the ball and was awarded a try on touching it down.
1960 V. Jenkins Lions Down Under viii. 116 A brilliant try by Malcolm Thomas, who ran down the touch-line..before cutting in-field to touch down under the posts.
2006 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 4 Apr. 50 No video replays showed Wakefield's Paul White touching the ball down for a try so we can only assume the benefit of the doubt was given to the attacking team.
2014 S. Wales Guardian (Nexis) 24 Feb. Full back Richards touched down for a 22 drop-out.
b. intransitive and transitive. American Football. To make a touchdown (touchdown n. 1b) or a safety (safety n. 6b), originally by touching the ball to the ground. Now rare.
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1877 Boston Daily Globe 9 Dec. 8/1 He held onto the ball and touched down for safety amid loud cheers.
1895 Sunday Post (Boston) 20 Oct. 3/4 Thorne broke through the Orange line, and by a splendid dogging run of seventy yards touched down. Letton kicked goal.
1896 W. Camp Football 24 Any touch-down gives the right to have what is commonly known as a ‘try-at-goal’, which is effected by bringing the ball back into the field, on a line with the point where it was touched down, and making an effort to kick it from any point on this line, over the bar between the goal posts.
1957 Ogden (Utah) Standard Examiner 20 Nov. In those days the try for point was made on a straight line out from where the ball was touched down.
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a. intransitive. To alight upon or reach the ground after flight; to land. Typically used of aircraft, spacecraft, or the people in them.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land
land1784
alight1786
to sit down1926
to put down1933
to touch down1933
to hit the deck1943
1933 Chester (Pa.) Times 24 July 11/4 I must have brought the machine in so that it touched down farther across the field than I estimated.
1962 Listener 8 Feb. 260/2 I send this dove from the ark Where she must never touch down.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon xiv. 369 At 12.45 a.m. Houston time, Apollo 12's lunar module Intrepid touched down on the moon.
1987 L. Godsall Bottriell King Cheetah 48 Just after first light the next morning we touched down at Jan Smuts airport.
2012 V. Flynn Kill Shot xxxvi. 328 As Kennedy watched the plane touch down her mind was swimming with details.
b. transitive. To land (an aircraft).Much less common than 2a.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > land
land1916
to touch down1935
to put down1939
1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 41 M'Intosh touched her down.
1987 L. Johnston in W. P. Trower Discovering Alvarez ix. 61/2 Luie told the pilot that he should be able to see well enough to touch the plane down.
2011 P. Scearce Finish Forty & Home iv. 60 The pilot touched the plane down.
c. intransitive. Of a tornado: to extend fully down to the ground, to make contact with the ground.
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1952 Neosho (Missouri) Daily Democrat 4 Mar. 1/2 The funnel of another tornado touched down about 20 miles south of Birmingham, Ala., on the Montgomery highway.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. e9/1 14 persons were injured when a tornado touched down near Glasgow, Ky.
2012 C. Waters Dive In! ix. 91 Maybe a tornado would touch down and they'd have to evacuate the school.
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